White-haired Demon Lord and Senior Brother

Chapter 167

◎Every fox◎

A man dressed in black and wearing a turquoise tengu mask hurried through the crowd on the street, followed Huang Yan closely, and arrived at a place where there were few people, Huang Yan's figure disappeared out of thin air, and he stopped immediately. suspicious.

Huang Yan's voice suddenly came from behind: "It seems to be targeting me? Whose subordinate are you?"

The man in the turquoise tengu mask turned around immediately, but didn't answer.Seeing this, Huang Yan pulled out Zhu Yunzhan's sword and forced an answer with the sharp blade. The man in the turquoise tengu mask hurriedly avoided the sharp blade, but the reaction was good. He drew the sharp blade from the sheath and confronted sensitively.

After fighting fiercely for a while, the sharp blade slashed at the man's face, cutting off the tengu's nose. The man hurriedly covered the gap with one hand, and stepped back hastily. A man in black wearing a red tengu mask, a green tengu mask and a black tengu mask raised his sword to attack Huang Yan at the same time. After a messy confrontation, the masked man with the broken tengu nose was rescued.

Huang Yan didn't intend to pursue, just put the sharp blade back into the sheath, snorted mockingly, turned around and left.After meeting Zhu Yanfeng and Zhu Yunzhan, and returning to the inn, Huang Yan handed the sword and the glass bottle containing the oiran wine to Zhu Yunzhan, and told him to hurry back to Pingjing Palace after dawn.

At daybreak, the three of them went their separate ways. Zhu Yunzhan rode his horse to the east, while Huang Yan and Zhu Yanfeng stayed in Taoxia Commandery and slowly headed for Yunxiuding.

Three days later, Huang Yan and Zhu Yanfeng rode their horses over mountains and ridges, and came to a high mountain named 'Yunba Peak', entered the mountain along the winding mountain road, climbed up from the foot of the mountain to a place sixty feet high, and Before reaching the middle of the mountainside, I saw a tall archway standing in front of my eyesight. On the top of the archway were engraved with three large characters of "Yunxiu Ding".

Huang Yan didn't even look at the big characters on the archway, just rode forward, passed through the passage below the archway generously, had just served two cups of tea, and suddenly rushed down several men, holding the hilt of their sword tightly, holding the sword horizontally. In front of him, he stopped the two of them with the momentum of bullying.

Zhu Yanfeng opened his lips calmly: "We are here to visit the Lord's wife at Yunxiuding, so it's probably inappropriate to welcome us like this?"

The Yunxiuding disciple blurted out in a strict voice: "Who is the trespasser? Report your name!"

Zhu Yanfeng only replied casually: "Zhu Yanfeng, I've heard of Wuji."

Among these disciples of Yunxiuding, four of them couldn't help becoming nervous, and couldn't help saying: "Wear... Wenren... Wuji... Jinling Pavilion in Qingluan City... Daqing..."

Hearing this, Huang Yan seemed to smell a clue, the corners of his lips raised slightly, showing a mocking smile.

Zhu Yanfeng saw that these Yunxiuding disciples still did not hold back their long swords, so he said again: "The names have been reported, but you, are you going to start fighting to drive them away, or take us to see the Lord's wife after a round of fighting?"

The Yunxiuding disciple hesitated and hesitated, but Huang Yan didn't wait patiently. As soon as he slapped his horse's ass, he galloped forward again, and rushed forward with his own will. Zhu Yanfeng also rode his horse forward. Get out of the way, seeing the two of them rushing up to Yunxiu Peak, they hurriedly chased after them.

At the end of the road, there are three forks. The front is a section of high stone steps leading to the main gate of Yunxiuding, while the forks on both sides are winding gentle mountain roads, leading to the back gate of Yunxiuding, Horse farm and so on.Huang Yan and Zhu Yanfeng landed lightly from their horses at the same time, and waited in place.

Several Yunxiuding disciples chased after them, panting out of exhaustion, and put their long swords on the ground to support their tired bodies.Huang Yan opened his lips proudly: "Among you, who will lead the horse for me, and who will lead the way?"

The Yunxiuding disciples looked at each other, then obediently put their long swords into their sheaths, two disciples walked out, took the reins of their horses, and led the horses to the gentle mountain path on the left, while the rest of the disciples climbed up. Go up the stone steps and lead Huang Yan and Zhu Yanfeng to the main gate of Yunxiuding.

At this time, Shang Yanhua was relaxing in the garden, and Fu Xuehen followed her slowly, but kept silent, and lowered her eyes from time to time, as if she was absent-minded about the surrounding scenery, and Shang Yanhua occasionally turned her head to look at her. When looking at him, it is easy to find that he is secretly hiding something on his mind.

After a while, Shang Yanhua opened his lips: "Since you came back from Xiyutai, you don't seem very happy?"

Xue Hen heard the words, so he pretended to be indifferent, and told a little lie: "Mother is worrying too much, I am not unhappy."

Shang Yanhua didn't believe it, stared at his face, and asked softly: "Is that really the case?"

Xuehen was a little guilty, so he found an excuse and explained: "It's just that Zhayue is pregnant, and life in Xiyutai is often unsatisfactory. Those few days are always difficult for me."

Shang Yanhua sighed softly, and then persuaded: "My mother understands your worries about Yue'er, but my mother is not worried about Yue'er. Since she has already left the cabinet, if she is not happy, there should be Xiyutai Take responsibility, my mother believes that they dare not hurt Yue'er, so you should stop going to Xiyu Terrace, lest Yue'er will want to come home even more when she sees you."

Xue Hen pursed his lips, unable to answer.

Shang Yanhua took another look at Xuehen and thought: Hen'er must not be allowed to go to Xiyutai again, so that he won't see that Yang Qingming. After that, I will arrange a marriage for him so that he can get married early , Back on track smoothly!

The maid at Yunxiuding rushed to Shang Yanhua's side in a hurry, leaned into her ear, whispered for a while, and then waved her hands respectfully and left.Xue Hen stood aside and watched, curious for a while, and asked Shang Yanhua: "That woman, what did you say to your mother just now?"

Shang Yanhua replied without hesitation: "There are distinguished guests coming to the door, my mother will entertain them first, and you go to play chess with your father."

Xue hated and puzzled: "Shouldn't the respected father be responsible for entertaining distinguished guests?"

Shang Yanhua replied with a smile: "Let your father take a break once in a while, you go to play chess with him."

Seeing his biological mother walking away, Xue Hen was still puzzled, but he followed his biological mother's order and went to look for Fu Lianlei immediately. He searched the places Fu Lianlei used to go to, found the last place, and found the dormitory. , I didn't see Fu Lianlei, and I couldn't help but said to myself curiously: "My mother suddenly ordered me to play chess with my respected father, but my respected father disappeared. Today is really strange..."

Shang Yanhua entered the living room alone, looked at Huang Yan and Zhu Yanfeng, then said with a faint smile: "You two want to see me?"

Huang Yan replied: "Mrs. Chang, I want to talk to you about something, so I take the liberty to visit."

Shang Yanhua smiled faintly, turned around and said to Zhu Yanfeng: "In this case, please ask this young master to close the door for me and lower the curtain."

Zhu Yanfeng did it immediately, closed the door tightly, and lowered the curtains on both sides before returning to Huang Yan's side.

Shang Yanhua came to the chair in the high hall, sat down slowly, and said generously: "Let's talk freely."

Huang Yan cut straight to the point: "In the name of Jinling Pavilion, I would like to ask Mrs. Shang: Jinling Pavilion dispatched Foreign Minister Zhu Yunzhan to be assassinated twice by men in black. Yunxiuding is related, I wonder if Mrs. Shang ordered it?"

After hearing this, Shang Yanhua didn't change his face, just raised the corners of his lips lightly, snorted softly, and replied: "Yun Xiuding has always been upright, never bullied martial arts, and has no grievances or enmity with Zhu Yunzhan, how could he treat him Hidden hand? If you want to suspect that Yunxiuding did it, please come up with evidence."

Huang Yan continued calmly: "Zhu Yunzhan and your young lady are already a real couple, but Yun Xiuding insists on marrying her to the head of Xiyutai. The assassination of the man in clothes shows that this matter has something to do with Yunxiu Ding."

Shang Yanhua only replied: "I still say the same thing, it is impossible for Yunxiu Ding to have played against Zhu Yunzhan. If today, the two of you are here to ask for compensation, then I'm sorry."

Huang Yan was still calm, and said: "Mrs. Chang misunderstood. The reason I asked Mrs. Chang was to seek justice for Zhu Yunzhan, and it had nothing to do with money."

Shang Yanhua replied proudly: "The Minister of Jinling Pavilion insists that Yunxiuding should bear the responsibility for that kid's assassination, then please go back, Yunxiuding can't afford to entertain such a distinguished guest as you."

Zhu Yanfeng was afraid that because of this matter, the most important plan would fail, so he quickly intervened to dissuade Huang Yan: "This matter should be pressed temporarily, and the murder case is the most important."

Hearing this, Shang Yanhua couldn't help becoming a little more cautious.Huang Yan just happened to catch her expression, so he smiled slightly and changed the subject: "In that case, I will not pursue this matter for the time being, and there is one more thing, I hope Mrs. Shang can clarify my doubts—— Madam Shang should know that Qingluan City is still suspecting that the head of Xiyutai is related to the bizarre murders in recent years, but why did Madam Shang and Master Yunxiu Ding marry their daughter to him?"

Shang Yanhua sighed softly, and replied: "Sure enough, this marriage will make Qingluan City suspicious. I opposed this marriage at the beginning, but my husband hastily agreed to his marriage proposal just because he has some friendship with him. , insisting on marrying off my daughter, making me lose my appointment with others..."

Huang Yan took out a piece of paper from his cuff, unfolded it, and let Shang Yanhua take a look: "I heard that the Fulianlu tribe likes to use masks to ward off evil spirits on the days of sacrifice. Madam Shang can recognize the painting on this paper. mask?"

What was drawn on the paper were two masks - the Tengu mask and the Evil Ghost mask. After taking a look at it, Shang Yanhua calmly smiled and said, "This is just an ordinary mask, you can buy it in any mask shop." It turns out that the evil mask used by this family is also this kind of ordinary mask."

Huang Yan said, and took advantage of the situation to ask: "But the materials are quite different. I wonder if the evil spirit masks used by the Fulianlu people are made of cypress or laurel wood?"

Shang Yanhua immediately replied: "Of course it's cypress."

Huang Yan folded the paper, put it back into his sleeve, and said: "Today's visit, although a bit abrupt, I still hope Mrs. Chang Haihan, I will pay a courtesy visit when I have free time."

Shang Yanhua replied generously: "As long as you don't come to falsely accuse Yun Xiuding of participating in any murder, you can come and visit anytime."

Huang Yan waved his hands to her and bid farewell: "Farewell." As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his eyes and saw a slightly abrupt snow-white scar the size of sunflower seeds in the shape of sunflower seeds on her slightly exposed wrists. Turn around as if nothing had happened.

Zhu Yanfeng waved his hand to bid farewell like Shang Yanhua, turned around and followed Huang Yan, opened the door and walked out.On the way, Huang Yan asked while walking: "How much do you believe in her answer?" Zhu Yanfeng said bluntly: "It seems that there is no flaw."

Huang Yan smiled slightly, and said disapprovingly: "Really? But no fox can hide its tail."

Zhu Yanfeng was curious: "Could it be that you discovered something?"